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Semantics and form: Tom Dixon’s Crown Chair

Semantics and form: Tom Dixon’s Crown Chair

Update: 2014-08-26

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By the end of the 60s, modernist principles came under severe criticism. One aspect of this criticism of modernism was the narrow interpretation of ‘what is function’. Here the OU’s Theo Zamenopoulos and Emma Curtis, of the Design Museum, discusses the principles that emerged which formed the post-modernism movement.

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Semantics and form: Tom Dixon’s Crown Chair

Semantics and form: Tom Dixon’s Crown Chair

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